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Mapping the Renaissance World

The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery

Mapping the Renaissance World( )
Author: Lestringant, Frank
Foreword by: Greenblatt, Stephen
ISBN:978-0-7456-8367-6
Publication Date:Feb 2014
Publisher:Polity Press
Book Format:Digital download
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Book Description:

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

Book Details
Pages:216
Detailed Subjects: Science / Space Science / Cosmology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.931 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:1.5 Pounds
Author Biography
Lestringant, Frank (Author)
Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar.

He is the author of Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965); Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990); Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); The Norton Shakespeare (1997); Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004); Shakespeare's Freedom (2010); and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011).

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